Monday, November 01, 2010

What's in a name?

No I am not a Shakespeare junkie like many people close to me are. I never even tried to read him. I can be too biased at times. Or maybe I am biased when it comes to Shakespeare as his statement "What's in a name" according to me is not a wise thing to say :P

I have my own reasons to believe so. My name is way too common. You call out Neha and 6 out of 10 girls will turn around. Out of remaining four, three will be Poojas! In my phone book, I have 8 Nehas stored. I sometimes get confused too about their identity. I forget their faces and cannot recollect them when they call me. I have to talk to them for 5 minutes to actually recognize which Neha called me! I am sure this must be happening with you as well.

Worst thing: When someone does not have my number stored and I happen to call up that person, I literally have to remind them about my past encounters with them as unfortunately, my surname is too common as well! My college had 3 Nehas with the same surname.

I so feel like whacking the person whoever says what's in a name. Damn, have my name and you will know what's in a name. The only advantage I have with my name is that every second client I meet has a daughter/sister/mother/wife/niece/any other relative whose name is Neha. I usually crack that deal. But I am capable enough to crack it otherwise too people! It is not a "wow" thing for me when you say that I am your xyz's namesake!

I know people who love this name. My neighbour Uncle is very fond of me. He named his Russian daughter in law Neha because of that reason. She is the 4th one in my building!

But one thing is there. After seeing the image below, Shakespeare would have changed his statement for sure!

Happens with me. I have 6 Neha's in my gtalk buddy list (including you) and I somtimes get confused as to which Neha m i talking. I spoke for 15 mins with a friend thinking she was my cousin Neha =)). Actually, a lot is in a name ;).

Harini is not as common as Neha but here its pretty common unfortunately :(.

Did you know something? The Polish have a list of names, for boys and girls. Any child born in that particular month, is to be named ONLY From the pre-defined list :-) So you have a multitude of Tomazks and Mareks and likewise!!!

If it makes you happy, then I didn't know ANY Neha's (well, except one) for the first three decades of my life ;-) Now though, I know 3 ;-) But that's not too bad, is it? And Neha is a really nice name.. sounds so soft and sweet!!!

And oh, I think the most daunting challenge for a parent, is to name the child!!! The name has to be nice, unique, crisp, meaningful... blah blah...

Haha.. can understand.. that happens with me too since I have lot of friends with same name. but thankfully, I just have one friend who shares her name with me. Not many people have shared names with me in college :)

and 'coz of immense fan following for amitabh, I know too many Abhishek's :).we had a small army in both school and college :P. thank god dad didn't like RajKumar that much. imagine being called 'puru' all your life ;)

Oh yeah, agree with you... too many with the same name can be confusing (and it gets worse, if first name & surname is the same)! What is far worse, is when people mutilate your name even if it is just a 4-letter name (ask me!). My daughter has a unique name 'Roanna' (latin - sweet & gracious) and some of her teachers call her 'Rona' (cry?)!

hey know what, I wrote a post on similar lines with the same title & starting as u hv written...Gr8 coincidence yaar....

I too face few problems with my name & tht is exactly what I hv mentioned therein...!!!

Your name is common but I'll surely remember u distinctly & always apart from others bcos of ur blog articles. Though I don't comment here much often, I hv read almost all of ur posts & I truly admire ur point of view...

I too haven't read shakespear ever barring one or two of his works which made way into our English textbooks :D

What's in name? Well,now that you've put this post up I'm also thinking does it really make sense? On thinking I feel no! Cause Name is the first thing you get your identity from...

Ahh..you said it...I too have so many Nehas stored in my Phone book that I've to actually add some identification to their names while saving ;) Now don't ask what's added after your name in my phone book ;)